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Many international correspondents in China believe reporting
conditions have worsened over the past year, according to a new survey by the Foreign
Correspondents' Club of China that also finds the Chinese government has "increasingly
resorted to threats and intimidation against foreign media."

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New York,
March 13, 2013--Authorities in Bangladesh must immediately investigate attacks
on a journalist's car and a local press club that occurred within a day of each
other, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The attacks took place
amid massive politicized strikes and demonstrations that have swept the
country.

Amid a tense presidential election, Kenyans have avoided a
repeat of the deadly violence that followed the vote in 2007, when half a
million people were uprooted and more than 1,000 people were killed. Still, the
situation today is fraught. Ethnic identity dominates the nation's political
divisions--and those same loyalties can undermine solidarity in the press corps.

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New
York, February 25, 2013--Egyptian authorities must do their utmost to determine
the whereabouts and ensure the safety of Mohamed el-Sawi, an online journalist
who was reported missing on February 21, the Committee to Protect Journalists
said today. CPJ also calls on Egypt to stop using the law to intimidate
journalists and prevent them from reporting critically.

One
result of President Rafael Correa's high-profile campaign to demonize the
country's private media can be seen on the desk of José Velásquez, news manager
at Teleamazonas, a private Quito television station often critical of the
government. Among the documents piled high on his desk are lawsuits, which used
to be a rare thing. Encouraged by Correa, who has personally sued
newspapers and journalists, Velásquez says, the subjects of Teleamazonas news
reports are now filing between two and five lawsuits per month against the
station.

Is Irina Khalip, the prominent Belarusian journalist, free
to travel? President Aleksandr Lukashenko, whose government prosecuted her on
bogus charges of creating mass disorder, says that she is. That Khalip has not,
the president said, shows that she would prefer to be known as a "victim of the
regime." Of course, this all seems strange considering that Khalip's sentence
requires her to be home by 10 p.m. daily.

New
York, January 28, 2013--Authorities in Nepal should ensure the safety of more
than 20 journalists who fled the western district of Dailekh on Thursday after
receiving death threats from individuals they said were supporters of the
ruling Maoist party, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. At least five
news outlets have been forced to halt operations as a result, news reports said.

New
York, January 24, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the threats
and acts of intimidation against journalists in Nepal during Prime Minister
Baburam Bhattarai's visit on Wednesday to the western district of Dailekh.

Istanbul, December 26, 2012--The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the attack on December 16 on Rohat Emekçi, a news anchor and
producer with the pro-Kurdish Gün Radio station in Diyarbakir province, in southeast
Turkey.